Chapter 20 Origin of Light
The ripples of light surged, bathing in the rain of light. Sarriel’s tainted demonic power burned. Even his immortal body found it difficult to resist and dissolve, collapse, and disintegrate in the infinite light!
The fallen angel’s face showed an expression of unbearable pain. This was no different from torture. The pain of burning light even surpassed the destruction of the soul. However, at the same time, within the intensely burning sacred flames, it was also the purest sacred light, bestowing further blessings upon this fallen one.
Suddenly, the dazzling golden light flashed. Verafia’s Life Divine Sword was lightly raised, blocking the radiant light transformed from pure laws. Her golden eyes observed, and her slender eyelashes flickered lightly.
In the dense ocean of light, Sarriel struggled to rise. The profound light burned his body wantonly. Suddenly, layers of laws vibrated, stirring up immense waves. In the dazzling light, a fiery golden Sword Qi sliced through the crescent moon, whistling towards the slender, delicate body of the Goddess of Life!
“Sarriel, is this the ‘Judgment’ you once wielded?”
As Verafia witnessed this astonishing Sword Qi, she lightly uttered, as she once again drew the sacred sword edge from Sarriel’s hand.
Sarriel was one of the first four followers created by the God of Light. Before his fall, he was one of the Archangels, possessing the divine sword of Judgment bestowed by the God of Light. The fallen sword, which Sarriel had wielded in the Demon Realm for tens of thousands of years, was born from the burning of the fire of sin.
Under the light, Sarriel once again drew the divine sword of Judgment. The radiant light, released after tens of thousands of years, was enough to judge anyone in this world. Even Verafia, as the Goddess of Life, was not to be underestimated.
Beside Verafia, the fluctuations of life suddenly touched the oncoming light. New buds sprouted, and between the dispersed spiritual power shimmering with starlight, the phantom of the World Tree appeared. The branches and leaves trembled under the sword light of Judgment, and countless ripples surged.
The Goddess of Life’s eyelashes lifted slightly. With a raise of her slender hand, her jade-like fingers clenched the edge of the Life Sword and stabbed out. In the vast light, the endless torrents receded, and the eight-winged angel’s figure reappeared in her eyes.
Beyond the light, he still held the fallen sword edge. Like the light burning on the divine sword, the sinful sword edge blazed with an incomparably vigorous fire of sin. These were tainted wings, representing sin, a fall that even corrupted the light.
However, the other half of his divine body was burned by the light. Golden divine feathers fluttered, and pure white angelic wings extended from the half of his body that had been burned by the light. The dazzling golden divine fire seemed to have clad him in magnificent armor. In his sacredness, the majesty belonging to the light burned like fire!
The instant Verafia dispelled the radiant light, the sacred light burning on Sarriel and the endless fire of sin erupted. The light and dark angelic wings flapped, appearing beside the girl. The sword of sin burned with a blazing fire of sin, possessing an astonishing prestige that even the intertwined Life Divine Power was burned in an instant.
The Life Sword clashed with the dark red fire of sin. In Sarriel’s hand, the divine sword of Judgment was raised again. Its astonishing power, like an erupting sacred light, was unleashed without concealment, descending the most radiant judgment upon the approaching goddess!
The Life Sword struck the radiant sword. Verafia lightly retreated on her radiant feet. The surging brilliance stirred the corners of her skirt. She once again gripped her sword to block, her beautiful pair of golden eyes gazing at the angel where light and darkness converged.
Radiant heavenly feathers, tainted filthy wings, dense angelic plumes fluttered behind Sarriel. Even as the burning light and tainted sin intertwined, the angel’s handsome face before her remained perfect. Not even Verafia could find any flaw.
Like the Sword of Judgment held in Sarriel’s hand and the sacred sword of sin, the sacred flames of light and the fire of sin were perfectly displayed on Sarriel. With every attack, they poured towards Verafia!
Blocking again with her sword, the Goddess of Life’s golden threads, like dawn, fluttered slightly. Her jade-pure face tilted its golden eyes up slightly, observing the divine sword of Judgment burning on Sarriel’s right arm. She suddenly frowned slightly and moved her red lips, saying:
“Sarriel, you are no longer the Judgment Angel of the God of Light. Even if you have regained power from the fragments of light after falling to darkness, it cannot change this body of yours that has long been entangled by the fire of sin—drawing out the Sword of Judgment is merely like drawing fire to immolate yourself!”
The goddess’s pleasant voice came through the clash of light and life.
Sarriel before her had drawn the Sword of Judgment, almost carrying his former self as the Judgment Angel onto this body. Under the light, attacking with the sacred sword of sin was almost equivalent to the power of two Sarriels.
Even Verafia, as a goddess, was repelled in just a few brief moments, even slightly suppressed under Sarriel’s divine sword.
But as she had said, the Sword of Judgment in Sarriel’s hand was no longer his power, but something this fallen holy angel had retrieved from the fragments of light.
To wield it forcefully would only burn his body and soul. He wouldn’t even need Verafia to act; this fallen holy angel himself would be burned to ashes by the light.
“Goddess of Life, thank you for your confession.”
Sarriel said. Whether it was for his glorious past history or for his fall into darkness, the fallen angel showed no remorse. His handsome face even wore a flawless smile.
In Verafia’s eyes, between light and filth, his gaze could be described as calm. However, the girl could feel a fervor.
It was not the sincere faith from the light, but a fervent state of mind that had finally manifested, born from Sarriel’s relentless pursuit and unwavering dedication to something he was willing to pay any price for, over countless years.
Verafia’s long lashes slowly closed. The laws of life intertwined, condensing into laws. Following the sword shadows of life wielded by her slender hands, amidst the light and sin, sword calls rang out softly, oscillating above the laws.
Her golden threads fluttered slightly. The power of the Goddess of Life almost rippled through the entire sea of light. Although the sacred sword of light and sin in the fallen angel’s hand clashed with the Life Divine Sword, it was difficult to defeat her.
Verafia’s battle with the fallen angel shattered the void and time itself.
On the other side of the sky, tens of breaths later, Ig thrust out his sword, and Sarriel’s transformed body, condensed from angelic wings, suddenly disintegrated.
The battle of god-level beings had almost torn apart space-time. However, Ig effortlessly found that slender figure.
He once again gripped the End. Witnessing Sarriel amidst the laws of life, he moved his long sword, and the sword light of “Eternity” poured out!
Even the endless light and the fire of sin intertwined beside his divine body could not stop the sword of “Eternity.”
In an instant, a searing sword light swept across Sarriel’s body. His torso, which was already burning with sacred light, was reduced to mere ashes. After the slash of “Eternity,” it instantly disintegrated. Even the Sword of Judgment separated in the sword light.
At this moment, Verafia’s golden eyes lifted. The Life Divine Sword in her delicate little hand was raised. Her Life Laws intertwined, converging into an incomparably dazzling sword light.
The brilliant light of life struck the blocking sacred sword of sin, and then, with magnificent radiance, poured entirely onto the fallen angel’s body!
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This chapter is almost done, I’ll write the rest in the next chapter… (Daily rush to the deadline…)
